Terrariums!

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a little creativity workshop led by the creator of stephmodo, Stephanie Brubaker, for some ladies at church.  It was an awesome workshop!  She gave some easy ideas for creative storage, decorating, parties, and gifts.  I loved it because lately, I've been feeling this surge of creativity (thanks in HUGE part to Pinterest) and her humble attitude towards creativity (anyone can do it!) was inspiring.  As part of the workshop, we had the chance to let our own creative juices flow by making some very simple gift tags using scraps of fabric and simple manila tags, and then she showed us how to make a terrarium.

She was SO enthusiastic about terrarium-making, and it seemed SO simple, I had to try it.

My three small terrariums. Love the way the sand layered!

Here's her post with a simple set of instructions that I referred to when building these.  My shopping list:

- 3 succulents from Home Depot
- 3 vases/bowls from Value Village
- Dark sand from little man's sandbox
- Light sand from PetSmart
- Blue "gems" were in a drawer of miscellaneous game supplies
- Rocks were gathered from the alley by our house

The terrariums are now sitting in the kitchen/dining room on top of the shelving unit that holds our dishes (high enough to avoid little man's curious hands).  I seem to keep killing the lovely orchids my husband buys for me (can't figure out how to get them to rebloom after they bloom once, though I keep watering them!), so hopefully these will fare a better fate?

This plant is called Split Rock.  I think it's my favorite! It reminds me of a Dune sandworm.

This is another cool succulent, Chocolate something.  Fuzzy, brown-tinted leaves.

Third succulent, name forgotten, but the bumps on the leaf edges make it look alien to me.  (Sorry about the flash.)